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Brings together previously dispersed sources to argue for a tradition of Scottish colonial writing before the Union of Parliaments Offers the first comprehensive study of Scottish colonial literature before 1707 Focus on Scotland contributes to the diversification of studies on the early British Empire Provides a fresh argument about Atlantic writing contributing to the transformation of utopian literature from a fictional to a reformist genre Enters debates about Scotland's position in colonial and postcolonial studies through its focus on pre-1707 Atlantic literature This book focuses on three undertakings at Nova Scotia (1620s), East New Jersey (1680s) and the Isthmus of Panama, then known as Darien (1690s). Analysing works written in the larger context of the Scottish Atlantic, it examines how the Atlantic influenced seventeenth-century Scottish literature and vice versa. The relationship between art and ideology is key to the author's discussion as Sandrock argues early modern writing employed utopianism as a tool for empire-building and as a means of claiming power over the Atlantic.

Scottish Colonial Literature: Writing the Atlantic, 1603-1707

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    Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
    Publication Date: 26/01/2023
    ISBN13: 9781474464017, 978-1474464017
    ISBN10: 1474464017

    Number of Pages: 240

    Non Fiction , ELT & Literary Studies , Education

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    Brings together previously dispersed sources to argue for a tradition of Scottish colonial writing before the Union of Parliaments Offers the first comprehensive study of Scottish colonial literature before 1707 Focus on Scotland contributes to the diversification of studies on the early British Empire Provides a fresh argument about Atlantic writing contributing to the transformation of utopian literature from a fictional to a reformist genre Enters debates about Scotland's position in colonial and postcolonial studies through its focus on pre-1707 Atlantic literature This book focuses on three undertakings at Nova Scotia (1620s), East New Jersey (1680s) and the Isthmus of Panama, then known as Darien (1690s). Analysing works written in the larger context of the Scottish Atlantic, it examines how the Atlantic influenced seventeenth-century Scottish literature and vice versa. The relationship between art and ideology is key to the author's discussion as Sandrock argues early modern writing employed utopianism as a tool for empire-building and as a means of claiming power over the Atlantic.

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